Two home resorts

[Kuzco-topia]

I am a new DVC owner. I recently just bought 100 SSR points thru resale. I am trying to learn all I can about using my DVC points. I understand the concept of the home resort but am curious about people who own points at multiple DVC resorts. I am thinking about purchasing another 100 points at BLT. How would this work for me? Do the points get combined? What is really my home resort? Can I book either resort at 11 months out and use all points together? or can I only book 11 months out using only 100 points for that one resort?

I appreciate the help!

 

[adminjedi]

You can only "combine" the points at the 7 month mark.
You can book several days at one resort and several days at the other resort at the 11 months mark then at the 7 month mark check availability to change the reservation if you want to stay at just 1 resort.
Hope that helps.

 

[Sandisw]

If you buy another resort, then it also becomes your home resort. The benefit is that you could then have the 11 month window at both.

You are only allowed to use the points associated with each at that time, but with banking and borrowing, you could end up with 3 years worth of points to use.

Some do this because they want to alternate trips each year, or buy a small amount for special trips. For example, someone might buy a small amount of BWV points just so they can book 11 months out every year to go for a short F & W trip.

We are now considering getting some BWV points to add to our BLT points so that we can do our summer trips as a split stays. We would be able to ensure we get BW view rooms at BWV and then SV rooms at BLT.

Plus, DH and I see ourselves wanting to go to F & W yearly, when both of us are retired.

 

[LisaS]

We often post here that "you can book your home resort starting 11 months out" but that is not the whole story. What we really mean when we say that is that you can book your home resort starting 11 months out using home resort points.

You can have more than one home resort but what really matters are home resort POINTS. You can book any resort starting 11 months from check-in up to 7 months plus one day from check in using points from that resort (aka "Home Resort Points") and only points from that resort. You can book any resort starting 7 months from check in using any points.

If you want to book BLT 11 months from check in, only BLT points can be used for that reservation. Those BLT points could be points that you own or points you had transferred into your account from another member who does own BLT points, even if you don't own BLT yourself.

 

[AirGoofy]

I am a new DVC owner. I recently just bought 100 SSR points thru resale. I am trying to learn all I can about using my DVC points. I understand the concept of the home resort but am curious about people who own points at multiple DVC resorts. I am thinking about purchasing another 100 points at BLT. How would this work for me? Do the points get combined? What is really my home resort? Can I book either resort at 11 months out and use all points together? or can I only book 11 months out using only 100 points for that one resort?

I appreciate the help!

In addition to other comments above, if you buy through Disney then it goes in the same UY. If you purchase a resale, then it stays with that UY.

We have 140 points at SSR. But, we really wanted to be able to stay at BLT, so we bought extra points there as well to take advantage of the 11 month booking window.

 

[homercrispy]

We have points at 2 resorts, but to us it makes no difference. our trips are always last minute, so 7 or 11 month windows don't matter. we like something new, so we just take whatever is open.

 

[JWG]

As with others, we use two resorts for varied location stays.
We have BWV and BLT points. BLT points to do a stay every other year while BWV can be used every year (depending on season and room type/view).

I'd like to add about 100 more BLT points so we can do a 2BR every other year in lesser seasons and 1BR in most. But that's down the road a ways.

I never thought I'd want two home resorts, but once you get our hands around borrowing/banking it's a nice advantage to be able to guarantee your preferred location. We love BWV for the festivals and we love BLT the other times of year.

We also love BLT for ease of access to dining and BWV for adult oriented trips or if we need just a bit more space.

 

[taaren]

I am a new DVC owner. I recently just bought 100 SSR points thru resale. I am trying to learn all I can about using my DVC points. I understand the concept of the home resort but am curious about people who own points at multiple DVC resorts. I am thinking about purchasing another 100 points at BLT. How would this work for me? Do the points get combined? What is really my home resort? Can I book either resort at 11 months out and use all points together? or can I only book 11 months out using only 100 points for that one resort?

I appreciate the help!

Btw, one more important note. You can onlu 'combine the points at 7 mos' if you buy points w the same UY month, and therefore have the same membership number for both contracts. If you choose to get 2 UY in addition to 2 resorts you'll have to do what many 2 membership ppl do which is book some nights one one contract, some on the other and link the reservations. HTH!